Or did you at one time and quit? I smoked for about 30 years and then quit.
Now I really have a hard time in bars or public areas where smoking is allowed. They always say reformed smokers are the worst to complain. I guess that is true.
You younger ones out there...if you haven't started smoking....DON'T!

Or did you at one time and quit? I smoked for about 30 years and then quit.
Now I really have a hard time in bars or public areas where smoking is allowed. They always say reformed smokers are the worst to complain. I guess that is true.
You younger ones out there...if you haven't started smoking....DON'T!

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I'm off the cigs over 3 years now. I had 2 previous quits lasting 2 years each. On my good days they smell disgusting. On my bad days they smell good. Everyone in my family who smokes dies a slow, horrific death in their early 60's. The ones who don't usually live well into their 90's.

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Or did you at one time and quit? I smoked for about 30 years and then quit.
Now I really have a hard time in bars or public areas where smoking is allowed. They always say reformed smokers are the worst to complain. I guess that is true.
You younger ones out there...if you haven't started smoking....DON'T!

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Im a smoker. I dont know where you live,but in New jersey you cant smoke anywhere. I wouldnt smoke around non smokers. Its not right.

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My partner and I stopped smoking a couple of years ago and saved the money we would usually spend on cigarettes each week. They are very expensive in the UK (over £5 a pack of 20) so after a few months we used the money to go on a cruise. Unfortunately we bought some duty free cigarettes on the cruise and started again - really stupid I know.

We both need to seriously do something about stopping again for good this time. Any advice?

My partner and I stopped smoking a couple of years ago and saved the money we would usually spend on cigarettes each week. They are very expensive in the UK (over &#163;5 a pack of 20) so after a few months we used the money to go on a cruise. Unfortunately we bought some duty free cigarettes on the cruise and started again - really stupid I know.

We both need to seriously do something about stopping again for good this time. Any advice?

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Yes.

Set a date and give yourself a time frame to gear up. I had only one false stop before we quit for good.

And Sorcerer?

I'm with you 100% on the rights of others thingy. There's nothing worse than a reformed anything. However, the smoking thing in Europe is beyond offensive. There's simply no reason for people to smoke in restaurants in my opinion.

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Stopped smoking 8 years ago and am one of those who is completely unbothered by the smoke from other peoples cigarettes. If they choose to suck the death sticks that's their business and I make no comments to them on it

We both need to seriously do something about stopping again for good this time. Any advice?

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Exercise. It's hard to do cardio with a Salem 100 in your hand. This last time:
1. I slapped on a patch
2. Guzzled water
3. Exiled myself to the gym. Lots of cardio and weight training.
Not only did I stop smoking, I packed on 10 pounds of muscle and went down a pants size.
4. I threw away ALL smoking related paraphenalia (even my cool vintage ashtrays and antique lighters)
5. I avoided smoking triggers. I learned this in a behavior mod class I took for a previous quit. For me they were talking on the phone, breaks at work, after work...I have many.
6. Don't expect support from your friends who smoke, they will even sabatoge your quit. This includes your partner if he chooses to start back.
7. Take it one day at a time (my lesson from AA). "I'm not gonna smoke today, tomorrow I can have one". The next day you do the same.

I do not smoke. Never have. But, as stated, I would defend one's right to smoke, but not around others who might be affected/offended by it. In my travels, Europe is smoke-crazy, but some parts of the world are worse. Asiatic Russia, and the PRC, for example.

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I started smoking when I was able to buy my own, at 16. By the time I quit I was going through about 2&#189; packs of Winstons a day. When I decided to stop I just put them down and never looked back. That was 35&#189; years ago.

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I'm a smoker, been smoking for a few years. I know a few ppl, or new rather, that died from smoking, and it doesn't bother me. People die everyday, it won't be anything special when I die, just 1 of billions.

yes I will admit that I am a smoker, I started at the age of 15, I did quit once, but the job I was working at the time was very stressful and I started back up once again, yes one of these days I will try to quit again.

if I am at a non-smokers home or in their vehicle, I certainly will not smoke out of courtesy towards the non-smoker, there was one time that one of my brothers was at my house, I lit up, and he started waving the booger fan, and told me to put it out, I let him know real quick, that he was in MY house, and if I want to smoke, I will do so, I respect him enough not to smoke in his house, but nobody will tell me that I can not smoke in my own house or vehicle, but I will make the request of other smokers who visit not to throw their cigarette butts in my yard or driveway, I have a small can right outside the door if they want to throw it in there.

I have never reached the 2½ pack limt, I have always smoked 1 pack a day, there are times that I have opened a second pack within the one day, but never got ½ the second pack smoked though.

I do recommend those who have not started to not start, but if I am in a area where smoking is allowed, don't start waving the booger fan at me, go to a non smoking area.

Besides health, the environment is another reason. Many smokers throw cigarettes out their auto windows, down on the ground and on parking lots outside stores.
When I was in military basic training, I was taught to "field strip" and put the filter end in my pocket until I could dispose of it properly.
I enjoy camping and can't believe the cigarette butts thrown down at camground sites. I wonder if these smokers do the same around their house?